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 TITLE: Inside ARTIST: Carmen Grant WRITERS: Carmen Grant LENGTH: 3:21 GENRE: Psychedlic rock, roots rock, country rock PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky LABEL: Permenant Reminder RELEASED: July 17th, 2014 From the Album: Mercury (Released January 9th, 2014)
Carmen greats us at the end of "One More Song" - which is a fairly upbeat and chipper song - with "Inside", which is much more somber song. Her voice sounds drugged and lazy as she sings the ultimate origin story song. "Inside" is the climax of the entire album, as all the other songs have basically been setting us up to hear this story of what happened to Carmen years ago that made her who she is today.
Carmen waits no time immediately setting the scene of the story she is about to tell. Her boyfriend, who she still loves very dearly, has had a mental breakdown from the pressures of life in general, and now has a gun. Whether he's threatened to shoot, or is just considered a dangerous to himself or others is never said, but it's obvious that everybody is taking this situation very seriously, as the first line of the song is telling us at what position the policeman is with his gun loaded. The drugged sound of Carmen's voice makes the song that much more depressing, as if Carmen can only speak of the occurrence if she's under some sort of substance. She continues on, stating that her boyfriend spent half his life trying to turn the other half around, so it's clear that her boyfriend may not have been that great of a guy in the past, and has been trying to make up for it. The chorus of the song is, "And I tried to come clean, but I guess it's no use / Face is all over the six o'clock news / They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools / I can't even get inside." It's a heartbeaking chorus that Carmen echoes throughout the song, reminding the listener of how badly Carmen wants to talk to her boyfriend and try to calm him down, but the police won't let her. There's a slight desperation in her voice, as if she's reliving the whole event, hoping that maybe - just this once - the police will let her talk him down and everything will turn out alright.
The next verse is Carmen asking her boyfriend what it was that made him so upset. She first asks if it had anything to do with him farm going under - which would have been a recent event - or if it was when his father died after he moved away - which would have been an event in the past. It's concluded at the end that no matter what it was that made him this upset, it probably had something to do with his mother, who thinks that he's a failure and doesn't want anything to do with him - which is enough to drive anybody a little crazy. As if the song weren't heartbreaking enough, Carmen goes on to tell her boyfriend in the song that she's pregnant with his child. The listeners and Carmen both know that her boyfriend can't hear her because the policemen won't let her talk to him, so he's never given the information that Carmen is pregnant with his child. She pleads with him in the song to give himself up so he will only have to do a little time in jail, and then they can be together again. But, of course, a song like this can't have a happy ending. The policeman, in the end, shoots Carmen's boyfriend, killing him on the spot. The song ends with Carmen repeating, "And I can't feel my broken heart, I can't feel my broken heart."
This song will, of course, open up a lot of questions with Carmen's fans. Carmen has never mentioned having a child, and nobody has ever seen her with a child before, so the question of what happened there comes into play. The question if this song is even a true story is a big one, although Carmen has been known to use her music to tell the story of her life, so there's no reason for her to write this tragedy, knowing that people will probably assume that it's a true story when it isn't. The emotions in the story are so genuine, but perhaps Carmen is just a good actress. The unanswered questions that this song creates will probably fill many fan's minds, but more than likely, they will never be answered.
Policeman on the corner and he loaded two rounds
And I can't even cross a line to talk you down
And, love, sweet boy, where'd you get that gun?
You spend half you life trying to turn the other half around
And I tried to come clean, but I guess it's no use
Face is all over the six o'clock news
They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools
I can't even get inside
Did you lose your head when the farm went down?
Or was it when your daddy died after he moved to town?
And I know your mother calls you, "good for nothing"
She says her baby is a failure, and she doesn't want you calling
And I tried to come clean, but I guess it's no use
Face is all over the six o'clock news
They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools
I can't even get inside
Love, sweet boy, there's just something I need to say to you
I'm going to have your baby this coming June
We could get a little place down by the park
You could do a little time and save my broken heart
And I tried to come clean, but I guess it's no use
Face is all over the six o'clock news
They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools
I can't even get inside
And I tried to come clean, but I guess it's no use
Policeman went ahead, and he just shot you through
Now you're lying dead on the avenue
And I can't feel my broken heart, I can't feel my broken heartSOUNDS LIKE:
My Morning Jacket - You Wanna Freak Out
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